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Cheap and Ample. Heat from the earth also powers the generators of plants in Italy, New Zealand, Mexico and Japan. Because the energy is cheap, almost inexhaustible and relatively clean, it is also being developed by some 25 other countries, from Chile to Taiwan, Ethiopia to Indonesia...
...drought area stretches across the entire waist of Africa, from Mauritania in the west to Ethiopia in the east In Ethiopia, more than 50,000 have died of starvation. Many mothers have had to sacrifice their weakest children by drawing emergency food rations for them and then using the food to feed the others. So great is the catastrophe, says one local priest, that the traditional public weeping and wailing for the dead has been abandoned; the people have lost the will...
...Ethiopia's case is the saddest ot all because many of the deaths could have been avoided. Last January, when officials brought word of imminent starvation among peasants to one provincial governor, he disciplined them for their "negative attitude." He also refused to press Addis Ababa for aid, for fear of embarrassing a government that was pushing tourism. The result was widespread starvation and an initial reluctance on the part of international agencies to send food; U.N. officials assumed that Ethiopia was suffering far less than the Sahel states...
Swollen Stomachs. The prognosis for Ethiopia and the sub-Saharan countries is for an equally grim and dry new year. The little rain that did fall this year came late and ended early, preventing a full fall harvest of millet and sorghum that might have saved some lives Relief efforts are continuing, and in Ethiopia some food is belatedly getting to the impoverished northern provinces But in the refugee camps thousands of children with matchstick legs, protruding ribs and swollen stomachs continue to die of malnutrition. A new woe was added last week when swarms of locusts began eating their...
...might prompt them to think about making bigger sacrifices for people dying of humger. It now is too late to sign up for the fast; everyone, whether or not they have signed up, should realize that skipping one meal is only the beginning of what must be done for Ethiopia...